Prime Minister Dacian Cilos announced on Friday that in 2017 the number or Romanian servicemen who will participate in the Kosovo Force (KFOR) in Kosovo will increase, but it won't reach the level in the past. "It's true that in the past years the presence reduced also because the complexity degree of the missions here diminished a little. (...) For the next year, following the demands that we have received our presence here will increase a little, but it definitely won't reach the level recorded in the past," Ciolos stated.
Currently there are 56 Romanian servicemen deployed to Kosovo's theater of operations within the KFOR mission, under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) aegis. The KFOR mission is aimed at ensuring a safe and stable security environment in this region. According to the National Defence Ministry, the general security situation in Kosovo is maintaining relatively calm, but fragile and there is a risk of isolated incidents.